“There is, at this moment, imperative need for men possessing, like Aristotle, universal knowledge.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions. — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“It is for this reason that Aristotle recommends that the writer begin "in the middle of things" and fill in the exposition… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. — Old Tom Morris Copy Share Image
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“ Aristotle raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
“The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“(For those who like to quote Aristotle’s wisdom when appealing to his “Prime Mover” argument for the existence of God, let us… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Two thousand years of inherited philosophy tugs on our ankles, our cognitive inertial mass being our evolutionarily endowed perceptual systems with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Aristotle’s ideal man, however, is no mere metaphysician. He does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“When the pioneers of university training for women demanded that women should be admitted to the universities, the cry went up at… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“as architect of choosing... choose. to. live. awakened. entirely. wholly. wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative, thriving. this is not a hoped-for… — LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier Copy Share Image